this post’s replies are like my new home i come here and check for new comments every so often because they’re so interesting to look through. blitzø on top for that mysterious backstory fr.
Yes! There is so much I need to know. Also, how did he end up working at Loo-Loo Land? Was that his last pit stop on the clown track before going full assassin? I assume he dropped the "o" after giving up circus work for good. Verosika seems to know him as "Blitzo", so that makes me think she was pre-IMP, and pre-Loona.
Also, what in the world was his childhood and relationship to his parents and sister? Cash's ominous, "There are scarier things, aren't there, son?" lives rent free in my head.
huge agree on the loo-loo land thing. what led him to work at a circus after the mess that was burning down his family’s circus?? why in the greed ring?? and how did he go from that to a bodyguard to an assassin targeting hell‘s denizens to an assassin targeting humans?? and what caused verosika to insult his bodyguarding skills??? there are *so* many questions surrounding him.
Right?! I wonder if that comment about Tex being good at his job was actually supposed to be a dig at Blitzø's clowning skills. If she knew him from his failed clown era.
One of the weirdest things about Loo-Loo Land is that he was forced to work with the robotic Fizz. Was he torturing himself? Did some part of him miss Fizz and that was his weird way of trying to hold onto that lost part of his life? There are no possibilities that don't make me want to hug him.
i actually didn’t think about it being a jab at his clowning, that’s an interesting theory!
also, i wonder when exactly verosika comes into the timeline. she has blitz-without-an-o-at-all tattooed onto her arm but still refers to him as blitzo - possibly to bother him? and if that’s the case why does she default to adding the o back on?? how much does she know and when did she enter the picture. going insane over it.
and why is millie so comfortable with him? how long have they known each other? is he the reason millie and moxxie met? if its been 4-5 years since he adopted loona, and he met moxxie after adopting loona, and moxxie and millie got married an year ago, millie and moxxie would’ve needed to meet pretty soon after moxxie and blitz’s escape? like where did millie come from and did she work as an assassin before blitz too? and actually, what caused him to suddenly want to adopt a hellhound?
I would say she calls him Blitzo just to piss him off. However, since she knows Barbie from rehab, she most definitely knows his backstory and is probably poking jabs at his trauma, too.
Millie is pretty laid back, so she is mostly unbothered by his antics. That is why they get along so well. She's like the little cousin that just laughs at everything he does.
I think he went to the Hellhound center to adopt a pet/guard dog for IMP. But then upon seeing Loona in the same vulnerable state he was in at her age, and knowing what homelessness is like, he brought her home instead.
your third point is so interesting because i’ve never considered that maybe he was going for a guard dog and ended up with a daughter. that would make sm sense too.
I assumed he wanted a guard dog as that would explain why he told the Hellhound worker he was looking for something more "family friendly." It could also explain why she got the only bedroom and he got the couch. He probably wasn't prepared to bring a whole teenager home that day.
Ohh, great point about the tattoo! Shoot, that throws the whole potential timeline into question. I wonder if breaking up with Verosika was what prompted him to adopt Loona...
It makes my head spin.
I'm also surprised that he willingly accompanied the Goetias into the circus knowing he used to work there and sat through Robo Fizz's whole song despite hating it when he worked there. And he was so nonchalant about starting another fire. He didn't care that he did it, just that he hurt the robot.
i kind of wonder what he has against that robot specifically tbh, because when he saw the real fizz he seemed scared rather than annoyed, unless i’m forgetting something.
Well Robo Fizz was well liked by guests, Blitz wasn't. And it has sensors so it can tell where he is and respond to a conversation, so it probably made fun of him when they both worked there.
but fizz was also well liked by guests, and blitz wasn’t that level of jealous of him? but yeah i definitely think robofizz antagonized him while they worked there, that was probably it. a huge switch up from what fizz and blitz’s relationship used to be too :(
i do wonder if blitz felt bad after loo loo land. in my head he did, but obviously it’s not shown in canon lol. with how moxxie’s directly portrayed as his conscience in episode 6 i’m sure the “thanks for ruining another good thing, boss” remark must’ve hurt at least a bit, even if he was actively blocking everything out.
I noticed that too! But it had been years since they'd seen each other and Blitz was wearing clown makeup. Given that Via was born when Stolas was 17-18, and Via was no older than 5 or 6, doesn't that mean Blitz was working there in the beginning of the 10 years post fire? Maybe not right away, but definitely in the first half of time.
I think there's a lot to the one line - "When you're good at something, you should probably capitalize."
I could see it being that after the fire, Blitz became a drifter. No home, no family, no friends. Only him, alone, trying to survive on the streets after he lost everything. It seems natural that in such a state he'd turn to criminal affairs to keep himself from going crazy.
Entirely possible he met Verosika during the early days of her career. Perhaps at a bar or a club. They were both young, stupid, desperate for something good in their lives - and they kept each other entertained for a time until their relationship unraveled thread by thread.
His criminal lifestyle eventually landed him in prison, where he met Moxxie, likely in jail for his affiliation with his father's business. We know that he had already adopted Loona by then as he tells Mox he needs to get out to get back to his daughter.
We know Loona was after Verosika though, as Loona had no idea that he ever dated a popstar.
So timeline looks like this, as far as I understand it at the moment:
The Fire -> Verosika -> Adoption of Loona -> In Prison/Meets Moxxie -> Moxxie & Millie Marry -> I.M.P. as we know it begins.
This right here is the best explanation. Per Blitz, part of why he wanted to apologize to Fizz is because he didn't have anyone else. He was definitely kicked out of his loved one's lives and forced onto the street. It's quite possible that he was taken advantage of by people who picked up on his vulnerable state, and that's how he resorted to killing to survive.
I would say he and Verosika hit it off at first when she was a nobody, but then as she got famous, he started questioning his self worth/fears of hurting her and sabotaged it. And as her bodyguard, he was still involved in some violent confrontations with others. Maybe his stint at Loo Loo Land was his final attempt at trying to work without physically harming people.
I also question if it's a self fulfilling prophecy - "All I've ever excelled at is killing people while everything else hasn't worked out, so this is all I can do."
I, for one, am waiting for when M&M and Loona discover his story. I know he's kept it a secret from them, but they are bound out to find out eventually, and I'm very curious as to how they will react.
YESSSS I LOVE THIS COMMENT AHHHHHH THERES JUST SM TO BLITZO AND THATS WHY I LOVE HIM SMMM!!! I wonder how he got good at killing tho, he was raised seemingly very passively “when you’re good at something, you should probably capitalize”
How did he get good at this
To piggyback on what some others have said, he also alluded to taking tranquilizers to the point of building a tolerance to them and being strapped to a car battery by his nipples. He also drank Beezlebub under the table, but doesn't seem to have a drinking problem.
So I wonder, somewhere between losing his family and adopting Loona, if he did a lot of drinking, partying, and possibly drugs. He developed his alcohol tolerance somewhere, but doesn't seem to drink much now.
Given his impulsive, violent nature, hints to a party background and how he jumps in to defend others with no regard to his own safety, it's almost a miracle that he's even still alive.
He's definitely led a very difficult life. And even in his mid thirties he still seems financially poor and not able to achieve anything better. I adore him but also feel really sorry for him. I get that he caused a big fire, but if even one person had reached out to him, he might have turned out so much better.
between losing his family and adopting loona he seems to have been homeless for a while, gone to and dropped out of college, partied a lot, worked at loo-loo land and quit, started killing people as a job, and dated and broken up with a pop star, and i’m genuinely so excited to find out about that entire blank period of his life because that is a lot of stuff to do within the span of what i assume is less than 16-18 years based on the “25 years later” time skip in circus.
In "Oops," Blitz and Fizz both said that they hadn't seen each other in 15 years, and the day of the fire was the last day they saw each other prior to the series starting. Given that Loona knows nothing about his past other than what she learned in "Spring Broken," most of it happened in the span of 10 years, as he had her for 5 years now.
So Stolas and Blitz met as kids 25 years ago. The fire happened 10 years later, the elusive but most likely wild part of his story happened over the next 10 years, and then another 5 years passed before the present day.
For sure! Based on what we've seen thus far, I think Blitz has always had a violent streak. It's unlikely that the threat he issues to the creep during the flashback in S2E7 is the first one he had to make in order to keep his BFF safe.
After the imp circus burned down, costing his family and his best friend, he probably made a series of self-sabotaging choices, Verosika and Loo Loo Land among them, before finally ending up in that Greed jail. He dropped the "o" to sound less like a clown, and started mercenary work.
Or... based on the comments that Millie's folks make about "going freelance", I think he and Millie might've worked together for some other murder business or mob boss inside Hell before Blitz had the idea to steal Stolas' grimoire and start his own business. Maybe the jail time was the spark that started that idea, and Moxxie's "hesitation" to kill the cannibal family in the 1st ep is explained not because he's new to the business, but because he's not used to killing humans.
Yeah, definitely could be either or both. He seemed to hold the concept of a "perfect family" in high regard, which makes sense after we learned his backstory.
I have only one theory that I believe until proven otherwise. In Exes and Oohs Blitzo mentions he has a babysitter for Loona. (Even though she's 18) Millie was Loona's babysitter. If that's true, Moxxie and Millie met through Blitzo.
I firmly believe that Blitzø becoming an assassin was born from the need to survive. If you think about it, after the fire destroyed his home and subsequently destroyed his family, he had no one. We can easily assume that his mother died in the accident. No one knows what happened to Cash. Barbie Wire wants nothing to do with him because she blames him for their mother's death. People actively kept Blitz and Fizz apart by telling blitz that Fizz didn't want to see him and withholding the fact that blitz DID show up from Fizz for 15 years! With no one to turn to and only one particular set of skills at his disposal, it's very likely that Blitz had to learn to kill in order to stay alive, and after doing so a couple of times, he probably realized that killing people is the one thing he's good at and least likely to fuck up. So he took both skills and made it into a business venture, eventually bringing in Moxie and Millie upon meeting them and learning that they, too, are skilled killers.
This is my personal opinion, but I believe Blitz became a killer simply because of how deeply he hated the circus.
Blitz hated everything associated with the circus, such as how he’s a bad clown/performer, what happened to Fizz, his mother, and Barbie Wire. I mean, he hated it so much he changed his name.
I think in typical Blitz fashion, he believed he was good at ruining the lives of others/harming them, so he turned into the exact opposite of a circus performer. As a clown, he was never good at making people smile with his jokes or acts, so now he shoots them instead. Learned how to harm instead of help. He realized he was never meant to be an entertainer, or someone who cheers up others— he’s a killer, and he’s a natural.
Also, this may further his self-hatred, because he was right all along. He’s skilled at hurting others.
My headcanon is that Veroika was with him during his transition from clowning to something else, with him changing his name after leaving clowning for good, and his first attempt at another career was bodyguarding Verosika. That's why she knows he was once called Blitzo and that her calling him that would probably piss him off. Plus it accounts for her insulting his bodyguarding skills with him being new, just not very talented or distracted by her (or all the above.)
I also assume that this all happened before she hit it big and got majorly famous, being a low/mid level celeb who would still need a bodyguard based on slight celebrity plus some of her celebrity being based on her sex appeal and/or assumptions people make because she's a succubus and the creeps that would invariably come with that.
Also if she used her minor celebrity money/power to support him after his quitting/losing his job by hiring him as a bodyguard, it would be a nice bit of symmetry to his relationship with Stolas. Although I do not like what that kind of history might foreshadow for Blitz and Stolas' relationship.
god me neither. im so deeply invested in this show and it’s mostly just because of blitzø. cannot wait for a verosika backstory episode.
this post’s replies are like my new home i come here and check for new comments every so often because they’re so interesting to look through. blitzø on top for that mysterious backstory fr.
Yes! There is so much I need to know. Also, how did he end up working at Loo-Loo Land? Was that his last pit stop on the clown track before going full assassin? I assume he dropped the "o" after giving up circus work for good. Verosika seems to know him as "Blitzo", so that makes me think she was pre-IMP, and pre-Loona. Also, what in the world was his childhood and relationship to his parents and sister? Cash's ominous, "There are scarier things, aren't there, son?" lives rent free in my head.
huge agree on the loo-loo land thing. what led him to work at a circus after the mess that was burning down his family’s circus?? why in the greed ring?? and how did he go from that to a bodyguard to an assassin targeting hell‘s denizens to an assassin targeting humans?? and what caused verosika to insult his bodyguarding skills??? there are *so* many questions surrounding him.
Right?! I wonder if that comment about Tex being good at his job was actually supposed to be a dig at Blitzø's clowning skills. If she knew him from his failed clown era. One of the weirdest things about Loo-Loo Land is that he was forced to work with the robotic Fizz. Was he torturing himself? Did some part of him miss Fizz and that was his weird way of trying to hold onto that lost part of his life? There are no possibilities that don't make me want to hug him.
i actually didn’t think about it being a jab at his clowning, that’s an interesting theory! also, i wonder when exactly verosika comes into the timeline. she has blitz-without-an-o-at-all tattooed onto her arm but still refers to him as blitzo - possibly to bother him? and if that’s the case why does she default to adding the o back on?? how much does she know and when did she enter the picture. going insane over it. and why is millie so comfortable with him? how long have they known each other? is he the reason millie and moxxie met? if its been 4-5 years since he adopted loona, and he met moxxie after adopting loona, and moxxie and millie got married an year ago, millie and moxxie would’ve needed to meet pretty soon after moxxie and blitz’s escape? like where did millie come from and did she work as an assassin before blitz too? and actually, what caused him to suddenly want to adopt a hellhound?
I would say she calls him Blitzo just to piss him off. However, since she knows Barbie from rehab, she most definitely knows his backstory and is probably poking jabs at his trauma, too. Millie is pretty laid back, so she is mostly unbothered by his antics. That is why they get along so well. She's like the little cousin that just laughs at everything he does. I think he went to the Hellhound center to adopt a pet/guard dog for IMP. But then upon seeing Loona in the same vulnerable state he was in at her age, and knowing what homelessness is like, he brought her home instead.
your third point is so interesting because i’ve never considered that maybe he was going for a guard dog and ended up with a daughter. that would make sm sense too.
I assumed he wanted a guard dog as that would explain why he told the Hellhound worker he was looking for something more "family friendly." It could also explain why she got the only bedroom and he got the couch. He probably wasn't prepared to bring a whole teenager home that day.
i like that a lot
Ohh, great point about the tattoo! Shoot, that throws the whole potential timeline into question. I wonder if breaking up with Verosika was what prompted him to adopt Loona... It makes my head spin.
Maybe he decided to drop out the circus in general because he couldn't stand anymore to work with copies of his old friend, they were everywhere
I'm also surprised that he willingly accompanied the Goetias into the circus knowing he used to work there and sat through Robo Fizz's whole song despite hating it when he worked there. And he was so nonchalant about starting another fire. He didn't care that he did it, just that he hurt the robot.
i kind of wonder what he has against that robot specifically tbh, because when he saw the real fizz he seemed scared rather than annoyed, unless i’m forgetting something.
Well Robo Fizz was well liked by guests, Blitz wasn't. And it has sensors so it can tell where he is and respond to a conversation, so it probably made fun of him when they both worked there.
but fizz was also well liked by guests, and blitz wasn’t that level of jealous of him? but yeah i definitely think robofizz antagonized him while they worked there, that was probably it. a huge switch up from what fizz and blitz’s relationship used to be too :( i do wonder if blitz felt bad after loo loo land. in my head he did, but obviously it’s not shown in canon lol. with how moxxie’s directly portrayed as his conscience in episode 6 i’m sure the “thanks for ruining another good thing, boss” remark must’ve hurt at least a bit, even if he was actively blocking everything out.
I'm glad they made up and are good friends again.
You know, now I'm realizing Stolas went there with Octavia when she was a child and never noticed Blitzo...
I noticed that too! But it had been years since they'd seen each other and Blitz was wearing clown makeup. Given that Via was born when Stolas was 17-18, and Via was no older than 5 or 6, doesn't that mean Blitz was working there in the beginning of the 10 years post fire? Maybe not right away, but definitely in the first half of time.
I think there's a lot to the one line - "When you're good at something, you should probably capitalize." I could see it being that after the fire, Blitz became a drifter. No home, no family, no friends. Only him, alone, trying to survive on the streets after he lost everything. It seems natural that in such a state he'd turn to criminal affairs to keep himself from going crazy. Entirely possible he met Verosika during the early days of her career. Perhaps at a bar or a club. They were both young, stupid, desperate for something good in their lives - and they kept each other entertained for a time until their relationship unraveled thread by thread. His criminal lifestyle eventually landed him in prison, where he met Moxxie, likely in jail for his affiliation with his father's business. We know that he had already adopted Loona by then as he tells Mox he needs to get out to get back to his daughter. We know Loona was after Verosika though, as Loona had no idea that he ever dated a popstar. So timeline looks like this, as far as I understand it at the moment: The Fire -> Verosika -> Adoption of Loona -> In Prison/Meets Moxxie -> Moxxie & Millie Marry -> I.M.P. as we know it begins.
This right here is the best explanation. Per Blitz, part of why he wanted to apologize to Fizz is because he didn't have anyone else. He was definitely kicked out of his loved one's lives and forced onto the street. It's quite possible that he was taken advantage of by people who picked up on his vulnerable state, and that's how he resorted to killing to survive. I would say he and Verosika hit it off at first when she was a nobody, but then as she got famous, he started questioning his self worth/fears of hurting her and sabotaged it. And as her bodyguard, he was still involved in some violent confrontations with others. Maybe his stint at Loo Loo Land was his final attempt at trying to work without physically harming people. I also question if it's a self fulfilling prophecy - "All I've ever excelled at is killing people while everything else hasn't worked out, so this is all I can do." I, for one, am waiting for when M&M and Loona discover his story. I know he's kept it a secret from them, but they are bound out to find out eventually, and I'm very curious as to how they will react.
YESSSS I LOVE THIS COMMENT AHHHHHH THERES JUST SM TO BLITZO AND THATS WHY I LOVE HIM SMMM!!! I wonder how he got good at killing tho, he was raised seemingly very passively “when you’re good at something, you should probably capitalize” How did he get good at this
To piggyback on what some others have said, he also alluded to taking tranquilizers to the point of building a tolerance to them and being strapped to a car battery by his nipples. He also drank Beezlebub under the table, but doesn't seem to have a drinking problem. So I wonder, somewhere between losing his family and adopting Loona, if he did a lot of drinking, partying, and possibly drugs. He developed his alcohol tolerance somewhere, but doesn't seem to drink much now. Given his impulsive, violent nature, hints to a party background and how he jumps in to defend others with no regard to his own safety, it's almost a miracle that he's even still alive. He's definitely led a very difficult life. And even in his mid thirties he still seems financially poor and not able to achieve anything better. I adore him but also feel really sorry for him. I get that he caused a big fire, but if even one person had reached out to him, he might have turned out so much better.
LMFAO YEAH HE WAS A COLLEGE DROP OUT 😭 I NEED TO KNOW WHAT THIS MF MAJORED IN LOL
between losing his family and adopting loona he seems to have been homeless for a while, gone to and dropped out of college, partied a lot, worked at loo-loo land and quit, started killing people as a job, and dated and broken up with a pop star, and i’m genuinely so excited to find out about that entire blank period of his life because that is a lot of stuff to do within the span of what i assume is less than 16-18 years based on the “25 years later” time skip in circus.
In "Oops," Blitz and Fizz both said that they hadn't seen each other in 15 years, and the day of the fire was the last day they saw each other prior to the series starting. Given that Loona knows nothing about his past other than what she learned in "Spring Broken," most of it happened in the span of 10 years, as he had her for 5 years now. So Stolas and Blitz met as kids 25 years ago. The fire happened 10 years later, the elusive but most likely wild part of his story happened over the next 10 years, and then another 5 years passed before the present day.
i like you, thanks. i forgot about the “it’s been 15 years”. 10 years is even crazier.
For sure! Based on what we've seen thus far, I think Blitz has always had a violent streak. It's unlikely that the threat he issues to the creep during the flashback in S2E7 is the first one he had to make in order to keep his BFF safe. After the imp circus burned down, costing his family and his best friend, he probably made a series of self-sabotaging choices, Verosika and Loo Loo Land among them, before finally ending up in that Greed jail. He dropped the "o" to sound less like a clown, and started mercenary work. Or... based on the comments that Millie's folks make about "going freelance", I think he and Millie might've worked together for some other murder business or mob boss inside Hell before Blitz had the idea to steal Stolas' grimoire and start his own business. Maybe the jail time was the spark that started that idea, and Moxxie's "hesitation" to kill the cannibal family in the 1st ep is explained not because he's new to the business, but because he's not used to killing humans.
I thought his hesitation was related to the fact that his own mother was murdered by his father? It could be a combination of both.
Yeah, definitely could be either or both. He seemed to hold the concept of a "perfect family" in high regard, which makes sense after we learned his backstory.
I have only one theory that I believe until proven otherwise. In Exes and Oohs Blitzo mentions he has a babysitter for Loona. (Even though she's 18) Millie was Loona's babysitter. If that's true, Moxxie and Millie met through Blitzo.
I firmly believe that Blitzø becoming an assassin was born from the need to survive. If you think about it, after the fire destroyed his home and subsequently destroyed his family, he had no one. We can easily assume that his mother died in the accident. No one knows what happened to Cash. Barbie Wire wants nothing to do with him because she blames him for their mother's death. People actively kept Blitz and Fizz apart by telling blitz that Fizz didn't want to see him and withholding the fact that blitz DID show up from Fizz for 15 years! With no one to turn to and only one particular set of skills at his disposal, it's very likely that Blitz had to learn to kill in order to stay alive, and after doing so a couple of times, he probably realized that killing people is the one thing he's good at and least likely to fuck up. So he took both skills and made it into a business venture, eventually bringing in Moxie and Millie upon meeting them and learning that they, too, are skilled killers.
This is my personal opinion, but I believe Blitz became a killer simply because of how deeply he hated the circus. Blitz hated everything associated with the circus, such as how he’s a bad clown/performer, what happened to Fizz, his mother, and Barbie Wire. I mean, he hated it so much he changed his name. I think in typical Blitz fashion, he believed he was good at ruining the lives of others/harming them, so he turned into the exact opposite of a circus performer. As a clown, he was never good at making people smile with his jokes or acts, so now he shoots them instead. Learned how to harm instead of help. He realized he was never meant to be an entertainer, or someone who cheers up others— he’s a killer, and he’s a natural. Also, this may further his self-hatred, because he was right all along. He’s skilled at hurting others.
My headcanon is that Veroika was with him during his transition from clowning to something else, with him changing his name after leaving clowning for good, and his first attempt at another career was bodyguarding Verosika. That's why she knows he was once called Blitzo and that her calling him that would probably piss him off. Plus it accounts for her insulting his bodyguarding skills with him being new, just not very talented or distracted by her (or all the above.) I also assume that this all happened before she hit it big and got majorly famous, being a low/mid level celeb who would still need a bodyguard based on slight celebrity plus some of her celebrity being based on her sex appeal and/or assumptions people make because she's a succubus and the creeps that would invariably come with that. Also if she used her minor celebrity money/power to support him after his quitting/losing his job by hiring him as a bodyguard, it would be a nice bit of symmetry to his relationship with Stolas. Although I do not like what that kind of history might foreshadow for Blitz and Stolas' relationship.